Re: More CPLD explorations

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:48:14 +0100
Message-ID: <etPan.530f17ee.2ae8944a.c43b@szaman.lan>
On 2014-02-27 at 08:36:20, Nate Lawson (nate@root.org) wrote:

>>>> The fun part is, if you look at a chip itself and measure just  
>>>> between +5V and GND of that chip, everything is a bit noisy, but not really
>>>> bad.

>>>> It's just that the ends of the board in relation to each other do
>>>> funny
>>>> things. The 1V peak-to-peak is only a few ns, and a half cycle is
>>>> about 500ns.

> >> Well, this doesn’t mean such thing can be “written off” due  
> to the length of the pulses. Of course it depends on various things  
> but it still can be a disruptive factor for regular operations  
> even if those are short.
> >
> > Also, remember, the image I mailed you shows the difference  
> in GND potential between the 2 points far away from each other.  
> When you take a closer look at Vcc and GND on each IC, it's still  
> noisy, but a lot less so.
>  
> Sounds like ground bounce, possibly solvable by finding the  
> responsible line drivers and providing decoupling caps.

We just talked it also off the list. It seems to be aligned with _CAS and so the DRAMs seem to be the culprit. And I just wrote about the caps that I thought were there mainly to prevent such things :-)

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